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6.4.8 Support for testing binary compatibility

The file compat.exp provides language-independent support for
binary compatibility testing.  It supports testing interoperability of
two compilers that follow the same ABI, or of multiple sets of
compiler options that should not affect binary compatibility.  It is
intended to be used for testsuites that complement ABI testsuites.

A test supported by this framework has three parts, each in a
separate source file: a main program and two pieces that interact
with each other to split up the functionality being tested.

<var>testname</var>_main.<var>suffix</var>
Contains the main program, which calls a function in file
<var>testname</var>_x.<var>suffix</var>.

<var>testname</var>_x.<var>suffix</var>
Contains at least one call to a function in
<var>testname</var>_y.<var>suffix</var>.

<var>testname</var>_y.<var>suffix</var>
Shares data with, or gets arguments from,
<var>testname</var>_x.<var>suffix</var>.

Within each test, the main program and one functional piece are
compiled by the GCC under test.  The other piece can be compiled by
an alternate compiler.  If no alternate compiler is specified,
then all three source files are all compiled by the GCC under test.
You can specify pairs of sets of compiler options.  The first element
of such a pair specifies options used with the GCC under test, and the
second element of the pair specifies options used with the alternate
compiler.  Each test is compiled with each pair of options.

compat.exp defines default pairs of compiler options.
These can be overridden by defining the environment variable
COMPAT_OPTIONS as:

     COMPAT_OPTIONS="[list [list {<var>tst1</var>} {<var>alt1</var>}]
       ...[list {<var>tstn</var>} {<var>altn</var>}]]"

where <var>tsti</var> and <var>alti</var> are lists of options, with <var>tsti</var>
used by the compiler under test and <var>alti</var> used by the alternate
compiler.  For example, with
[list [list {-g -O0} {-O3}] [list {-fpic} {-fPIC -O2}]],
the test is first built with -g -O0 by the compiler under
test and with -O3 by the alternate compiler.  The test is
built a second time using -fpic by the compiler under test
and -fPIC -O2 by the alternate compiler.

An alternate compiler is specified by defining an environment
variable to be the full pathname of an installed compiler; for C
define ALT_CC_UNDER_TEST, and for C++ define
ALT_CXX_UNDER_TEST.  These will be written to the
site.exp file used by DejaGnu.  The default is to build each
test with the compiler under test using the first of each pair of
compiler options from COMPAT_OPTIONS.  When
ALT_CC_UNDER_TEST or
ALT_CXX_UNDER_TEST is same, each test is built using
the compiler under test but with combinations of the options from
COMPAT_OPTIONS.

To run only the C++ compatibility suite using the compiler under test
and another version of GCC using specific compiler options, do the
following from <var>objdir</var>/gcc:

     rm site.exp
     make -k \
       ALT_CXX_UNDER_TEST=${alt_prefix}/bin/g++ \
       COMPAT_OPTIONS="lists as shown above" \
       check-c++ \
       RUNTESTFLAGS="compat.exp"

A test that fails when the source files are compiled with different
compilers, but passes when the files are compiled with the same
compiler, demonstrates incompatibility of the generated code or
runtime support.  A test that fails for the alternate compiler but
passes for the compiler under test probably tests for a bug that was
fixed in the compiler under test but is present in the alternate
compiler.

The binary compatibility tests support a small number of test framework
commands that appear within comments in a test file.

dg-require-*
These commands can be used in <var>testname</var>_main.<var>suffix</var>
to skip the test if specific support is not available on the target.

dg-options
The specified options are used for compiling this particular source
file, appended to the options from COMPAT_OPTIONS.  When this
command appears in <var>testname</var>_main.<var>suffix</var> the options
are also used to link the test program.

dg-xfail-if
This command can be used in a secondary source file to specify that
compilation is expected to fail for particular options on particular
targets.


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Letter from the Coalition for International Education Supporting Title VI-International Education Programs (December 2017)
The AHA has signed a letter from the Coalition for International Education in support of continued funding for Title IV-International Education Programs. HR 4508, the PROSPER Act, currently would reauthorize five Title VI programs, but would result in the elimination of six other programs without replacement. The AHA encourages members to urge their representatives to support level funding for Title VI and Fulbright-Hays.
Statement Opposing US Proposal to Tax Tuition Waivers (November 2017)
Following up on our alert to members on November 7, 2017, the American Historical Association has joined our colleagues in 33 other scholarly associations to oppose the proposal to tax graduate student tuition waivers as income. The associations, representing diverse disciplines across the humanities and social sciences, recognize the burden this change would place on graduate students living on modest stipends and the devastating effects this would have on higher education.
AHA Statement on Confederate Monuments (August 2017)
The tragic events in Charlottesville, Virginia, have re-ignited debate about the place of Confederate monuments in public spaces, as well as related conversations about the role of Confederate, neo-Nazi, and white supremacist imagery in American political culture.The AHA has released the following statement about the role of history and historians in these public conversations. Rather than seeking to provide definitive answers to the questions posed by individual monuments, the AHA emphasizes the imperative of understanding historical context in any consideration of removing or recontextualizing monuments, or renaming public spaces.
Letter of Support for Title VI Education (July 2017)
The AHA joined 29 other organizations in urging the Senate Committee on Health and Education to reauthorize and adequately fund Title VI programs in international education. "Without Title VI," the letter states, "most of the less commonly taught languages and world regions of strategic interest would not be taught in our schools and colleges on a regular basis."
Letter to Archivist of the US Concerning Discontinuing of Saturday Research Room Hours (July 2017)
The National Archives and Records Administration announced last week that research rooms in Washington, DC, and College Park, Maryland, will no longer have Saturday hours beginning July 22, 2017. This letter from AHA Executive Director James Grossman to David Ferriero expresses concern about the change and the nature of the announcement.
Statement Protesting Proposed FY18 Budget Reduction of Department of Education (April 2017)
The AHA Council has signed on to a letter from the Coalition for International Education urging members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees to reject the Trump administration proposal that threatens funding for the US Department of Education's International Education and Foreign Language Studies Programs.
AHA Letter in Support of Central European University (April 2017)
The American Historical Association has sent a letter to President János Áder of Hungary opposing legislation passed by the Hungarian Parliament that targets Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. The restrictions on institutional autonomy in the legislation would undermine CEU's mission of furthering scholarly collaboration between Europe and the United States. The AHA's letter urges President Áder to preserve international cooperation and the integrity of a national and international educational resource by refraining from signing the legislation.
AHA Statement of Protest Regarding Arkansas' Howard Zinn Controversy (April 2017)
On April 4, 2017, AHA Executive Director Jim Grossman sent a letter to Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson urging him to reject HB 1834, which would prohibit any Arkansas public school from using materials authored by Howard Zinn in their courses.
AHA Statement of Support for National March for Science (March 2017)
The AHA Council voted to officially publish a statement in support of the National March for Science on April 22, 2017. The AHA is firmly aligned with the goals of the March, which calls for the continued funding of evidence-based research and education that promotes the common good.
AHA Protests Detainment of French Historian Henry Rousso (March 2017)
On February 28, AHA president Tyler Stovall sent a letter to the secretary of homeland security protesting the recent detainment of Henry Rousso, distinguished historian of the Holocaust in France. Professor Rousso's detainment at the Houston airport en route to participation at a conference at Texas A&M University offers a chilling reminder of the importance of rule of law and respect for the rights of not only our colleagues but all travelers to the United States. Because the issue is of vital importance to the ability of historians to do our work, which includes international scholarly conversation, the AHA Council has voted to make the letter an official statement of the Association. The AHA continues to fight threats to the free exchange of scholarly ideas.
AHA Condemns Executive Order Restricting Entry to the United States (January 2017)
The American Historical Association strongly condemns the executive order issued by President Donald J. Trump on January 27 purportedly "protecting the nation from foreign terrorist entry into the United States."
AHA Statement on Right to Nonviolent Political Action (January 2017)
At its January 5, 2017, meeting, the AHA Council approved the following statement: The AHA upholds the rights of students, faculty, and other historians to speak freely and to engage in nonviolent political action expressing diverse perspectives on historical or contemporary issues. We condemn all efforts to intimidate those expressing their views. Specifically, we condemn in the strongest terms the creation, maintenance, and dissemination of blacklists and watchlists – through media (social and otherwise) - which identify specific individuals in ways that could lead to harassment and intimidation.
Letter Concerning Southern Illinois University Reorganization
On December 8, 2017, the Association sent a letter to Professor Carlo Montemagno, chancellor of Southern Illinois University, articulating concern about the proposed reorganization of the Southern Illinois University's administration that would eliminate the autonomy of the History department.

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BIGHAM, Clive. A Ride Through Western Asia.
BIGHAM, Clive. A Ride Through Western Asia. London, Macmillan, 1897.
8vo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; pp. xii, 275, plates after photographs, four folding colour-printed maps; light rubbing and bumping to binding, minimal spotting to title and margins of frontispiece; otherwise very clean and fresh: provenance: armorial bookplate George Fleming inside front cover, pictorial bookplate of John Frederick Nankivell with depiction of Ilfracombe Hotel, North Devon, dated 1868, on opposite fly-leaf.
First edition. This is an account of a journey from Istanbul over Ankara through Anatolia and Armenia into Persia, where the author meandered around and stayed some time in modern Iraq, then again to Persia via Kurdistan, into Russian Turkmenistan, Bukhara, Samarkand, Kashgar, finally into China and to the Trans-Siberian Railway. Charles Clive Bigham, 2nd Viscount Mersey carried out several diplomatic missions, and this one of the major - and frequently overlooked - books on Persia, as well as a good source on the Great Game. A few plates are after photographs by the Iranian-Armenian-Georgian photographer Antoin Sevruguin, whose photographic plates and prints were completely destroyed by Cossacks in 1908 during the suppresion of the Contitutionalist movement.
Provenance: George Fleming (1833-1901) was a Scottish veterinary surgeon who joined the army and 'served in the Crimea until the end of the war. In 1859 he volunteered for the expedition to north China, and he was present at the capture of the Taku (Dagu) forts and the surrender of Peking (Beijing), receiving for his services a medal with two clasps. While in China he undertook an expedition beyond the Great Wall, which he described in Travels on Horseback in Manchu Tartary (1863). In 1866 he obtained the diploma of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and in 1867 he served with the army in Syria and Egypt' (ODNB).


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Q: In Milner's Pi Calculus, what are the evaluation semantics when multiple processes read from the same channel? In Milner's Pi Calculus, what are the evaluation semantics when multiple processes read from the same channel?
The rules say that
!x(a). P | ?x(b) Q ~> P | Q[a/b]
but what about situations like
!x(a). P | ?x(b) Q | ?x(c) R
?

A: I know this question is somewhat old, but for the sake of the next person to come searching for an answer, I'll attempt one.
The answer is: it's nondeterministic.  The Pi calculus process:
?x(b).Q | ?x(c).R

Says "Either accept input on x then proceed as Q, or accept input on x and proceed as R".  Both executions are valid with respect to this process.  You can consider the labelled transition system associated with those process --- it will be branching, as you would expect.
It is precisely this kind of nondeterminism that makes process calculi (like Pi calculus and friends) "special", and different from things like the lambda calculus, where it doesn't matter in what order you evaluate things (you will reach the same result).  Pi calculus has all this machinery like bisimulation and transition system semantics precisely so that it can capture these sorts of situations and make them amenable to analysis.

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Education, Environment, FrontlineSMS Guest Posts, Press
Kicking conflict into touch with FrontlineSMS - a post from National Geographic
Njenga Kahiro, Kinship Conservation Fellow and member of the Zeitz Foundation, started the Laikipia Unity Cup in 2010 when he decided to combine environmental education and a football tournament. Laikipia is a countyin central Kenya where conflict between warring communities and stripping of natural resources are both fairly common. Njenga, with the help of his foundation, put together football teams from each region , usually combining young citizens of quarreling communities, and host a tournament that included matches, educational theater, and local conservation projects.
Tagged: community, education, FrontlineSMS, Kenya, National Geographic, users
Education, FrontlineSMS Guest Posts
FrontlineSMS helps The Busara Center for Behavioral Economics cut 16 hours of work down to 30 minutes
The Busara Center for Behavioral Economics is a research laboratory in Nairobi, Kenya focused onproviding researchers around the world with an opportunity to conduct studies in a variety of behavioral sciences with a strongly under-represented subject pool. Headed by Johannes Haushofer, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), the Busara Center strives to replicate the controlled lab settings in a novel environment. Busara is housed under the Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), a non-profit organization focused on developing and evaluating poverty alleviation programs around the world.
Tagged: community, education, FrontlineSMS, Kenya, software development
SMS Story Research Project, Papua New Guinea
We are using Frontline SMS in Papua New Guinea (PNG) to send stories and lesson plans every day to elementary teachers in rural areas. The SMS story team includes international volunteers working with Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) and the research project is funded by the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) through the Economic and Public Sector Program (EPSP).
Tagged: community, education, FrontlineSMS, ICT4D, Mobile, PNG
Improving Participatory Governance in Ugandan Schools using FrontlineSMS
This post is temporarily unavailable. Apologies for any inconvenience. For further examples of FrontlineSMS in action check out other guest posts on our blog here.
Tagged: accountability, education, FrontlineSMS, FrontlineSMS use, participation, Plan, Plan Uganda, school, Uganda
Education, Press
Ericsson Business Review: "Lessons on Learning"
FrontlineSMS Founder Ken Banks was interviewed by The Ericsson Business Review last year, and this interview has now been made available online. The interview focuses on how we often define innovation too narrowly, and why "development issues such as education require us to start with the problem, not the technology". A summary is available on the Ericsson "Networked Society Blog" here, and the full interview is available in pdf format here. You can find an extract of the interview below:
What role can mobile technology play in development?
Mobile networks open up the possibility of reaching communities that would otherwise miss out on any meaningful connection with the rest of the world, and allow them to engage, make themselves heard and to be empowered by information.
You have been involved in many fruitful mobile-centered development initiatives. What separates the successful projects from the unsuccessful ones?
The single most important thing is starting with the problem and not the technology. It is quite common for people to grab the latest smartphone or iPad or whatever happens to be hot at the moment and try to figure out how it could be used in a development context. This approach can work, but most of the time it is destined to fail. If you go in with technology as your main objective, you will end up shoehorning it into contexts where it will not always work. The solution to a development question could be pencils or paper – it does not necessarily need to have anything to do with ict. I think that the correct sequence should instead be problem-people-technology. By "people" I mean the individuals at the grassroots who usually understand the problem better than anybody else.
To read the full interview, please click here.
Tagged: Development, education, Ericsson Business Review, ICT, ICT4D, innovation, Ken Banks, learning, mobile technology, Technology
Education, FrontlineSMS Guest Posts, News
Supporting Education through SMS in Kyrgyzstan
IREX is an international non-profit organization working on education, independent media and civil society development. Recently, they have been using FrontlineSMS as a tool for efficient management of their Global Connections and Exchange (GCE) and Digital Youth Dialogue (DYD) programs in Kyrgyzstan. In this guest post IREX's Myahriban Karyagdyyeva and Tynchtyk Zhanadylov explain how their use of FrontlineSMS is making a difference in their work on these programs:
IREX has been implementing our Global Connections and Exchange (GCE) and Digital Youth Dialogue (DYD) programs in 22 schools and 3 librariesthroughout Kyrgyzstan. The GCE and DYD programs aim to equip students and the teachers with technology and training, in order to enhance classroom learning. In each school or library IREX has an appointed teacher who is responsible for coordination of activities between IREX and the institution. This set up requires IREX and teachers to have constant communication, in order to be able to keep up with dynamic program activities.
However, efficient communications on these programs initially proved challenging. Every day, the IREX team based in Bishkek need to send out different announcements and instructions to teachers, and at first we were doing this via email only. Yet we soon found that teachers often aren't able to check their emails during the day, therefore relying on email to communicate was resulting in delays. Our team often had to call each teacher individually in order to ask them to check their email. This took up a significant amount of staff time, and was also an inconvenience to teachers. In addition, we also have a need to receive information from teachers every day, and so there was a clear need for a quick and interactive communications channel which could make this process more convenient all round.
The teachers and students we're working with are attached to their cell phones, and therefore our team decided to experiment with text messaging as a method of communication. FrontlineSMS software enabled us to use mass text messaging, which streamlined our communication and allowed us to use time more efficiently. It only takes about a minute to send out text messages to all of our teachers through FrontlineSMS, whereas in the past staff were making individual calls which took a lot longer.
Currently FrontlineSMS is used in many different ways to help us administer daily tasks in our programs. This includes sending reminders to check emails or prepare for upcoming deadlines, as well as interaction between our team and teachers on any urgent questions. Using FrontlineSMS helps to improve the speed of communication, which in turn ensures that program deadlines are met and results in less time being needed for coordination of activities in different regions.
We have found that there are many other advantages to using FrontlineSMS, too. Internet speed is low outside of in Kyrgyzstan's urban centers and connection problems are a constant challenge. Few people have internet in their homes, yet everyone has mobile phones and so using SMS makes regular communication accessible to more of those we work with. When we ask teachers how they like working with SMS, they say that they find it very convenient, useful and flexible. It helps them to implement tasks faster, and helps them stay always informed in areas which are offline. When working with different communities who don't have regular access to internet or email, SMS is clearly a useful solution for ensuring fast two-way communication.
Moving forward we plan to continue using FrontlineSMS for communication with teachers, and we will also be using FrontlineSMS in new ways too. We plan to collect SMS feedback reports from our program participants on how often they attend IREX trainings and where trainings are being held. We will then map these reports using online mapping tool Ushahidi, and this will allow us to visualize our impact. In addition, the GCE program is also planning to use FrontlineSMS to conduct polling and short surveys among students and teachers, which will help us to further understand the value of our program and the needs that program participants have. We're really excited about all we have planned, and will continue to build up the use of FrontlineSMS in our work.
To find out more about IREX visit http://www.irex.org
Tagged: education, efficiency, FrontlineSMS, IREX, Kyrgyzstan, offline, SMS, Ushahidi
Disaster Response and Recovery, Education, FrontlineSMS Guest Posts
Supporting disaster affected communities in Haiti using FrontlineSMS
Guest post from Andy Chaggar, Executive Director of European Disaster Volunteers (EDV) who are using FrontlineSMS in Haiti:
European Disaster Volunteers' mission is to help disaster affected communities worldwide achieve sustainable recovery. This means doing more than simply addressing the damage caused by disasters; it also means addressing the underlying, long-term factors that made communities vulnerable in the first place.
We've been working in Port-au-Prince, Haiti since June 2010 and have placed a high priority on education since the beginning. EDV has rebuilt or repaired 36 classrooms in eight schools, are providing scholarships to 50 primary school children, and also run free English classes for adults.
Having originally graduated with a degree in electronic engineering in 1999, this work is a major change in direction for me. However, given my previous career it's probably not surprising that I've retained a strong interest in technology, particularly in its application to disasters and development. So, when I heard about FrontlineSMS, I immediately saw its usefulness to EDV's current work in Haiti.
From the outset I knew FrontlineSMS would be particularly helpful for our English Education program. English is a key vocational skill for Haitians seeking employment and, almost as soon as we arrived, we started getting requests from our community for language support. Over the past 17 months, what began as informal classes has developed into a structured program that includes 120 students in eight weekly classes at four different levels.
Managing communications in the program was a challenge from the outset. In addition to the students, we have to coordinate our Haitian teachers and international volunteers. Everyone needs to be kept informed of the time and location of meetings and scheduled classes are prone to disruption.
In a country like Haiti, everyday issues like teachers being ill are compounded by problems of instability. Potential hurricanes, political unrest or simply a particularly heavy rainstorm all have the ability to disrupt class, so the ability to communicate is vital.
Very few Haitians have regular access to the Internet so group emails aren't an option. Before using FrontlineSMS, we would often have to scramble to call, or text, everyone affected to reschedule a class. In some cases, such as during heavy rain, an unlucky volunteer would have to walk to a class where we knew very few students would turn up simply to apologise to the few who did and tell them to try again next time.
Now, by using the software's ability to create contact groups, we can very quickly and cheaply text all students in a given class or call all of our Haitian teachers in for a meeting.
Our English program is very popular and also has a big waiting list. When spots in our various classes recently opened up, we were also able to use FrontlineSMS to text over 100 prospective students and invite them to take a placement test so we could fill the classes with students at the right level.
Overall, this simple but effective technology has made managing our English Program much easier. Without FrontlineSMS, we would still be using chaotic, time-consuming and inefficient methods of communicating, all of which would distract and disrupt the actual work of teaching.
The fact that FrontlineSMS is free is also very appealing to us. While we're a growing charity, we're still fairly small and love to save money by using free technology. Beyond this, however, an important principle is at stake. EDV is committed to working with disaster survivors to build local capacity to meet local needs. This partly means connecting survivors with tools they can use themselves. Even if we could afford to buy expensive, licensed software, the survivors we work with never could. As a result, we always prefer to use technology that is as accessible to survivors as it is to us.
We're in the process of handing over leadership of the English Program to our local teachers and a Haitian school administrator. As part of this process, we'll be providing a computer with the software and contact groups installed so that our communications solution is transferred. We've found using FrontlineSMS to be very intuitive so we're confident our school administrator will continue to retain and develop use of the technology.
We have other future plans for use of FrontlineSMS in addition to our English Program, and see many ways it can help us operate more effectively. We currently also use the technology for our own internal messaging which is critical in Haiti due to security issues. Political demonstrations can be dangerous and can happen with little warning, so being able to quickly text all of our in-country volunteers and tell them to return to base immediately helps keep everyone safe.
We'll definitely continue to use FrontlineSMS internally in other disaster zones, and we will continue to explore other potential project-related applications for the technology as well. For example, a couple of years ago I visited a community group in the Philippines who provided early warning alerts to its members living in typhoon and flood prone areas of Manila. While doing an amazing job, they were reliant on an aging infrastructure of radios and loudspeakers and this process could have been strengthened using FrontlineSMS.
I see the need for such early warning systems time and time again and I'm fairly confident that in the future such work could be complemented and improved by using FrontlineSMS to quickly text those in danger. Moving forward, I'm excited to see how FrontlineSMS, and technology overall, can be applied to solve important real-world challenges and both help to save and improve lives.
Tagged: education, Haiti, Humanitarian, humanitarian aid
Education, FrontlineSMS Guest Posts, News, Social Change in the Developed World
Global learning at the speed of a text message
In a rapidly changing, globalised world education can help young adults to understand life beyond their own national borders. Here, in our thirtieth guest blog post, Alex Monk, School Linking Officer at Plan UK, discusses how FrontlineSMS is being used to support a project called Plan-ed. This project links schools across the globe, and thus helps deepen young people's understanding of our world today.
"The Plan-ed School Linking programme has been running since 2008 and connects young people aged between 7 - 14 in the UK with their counterparts in China, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal and Sierra Leone. Schools exchange pen-pal letters, e-mails, videos and local artifacts. The Linking programme also allows children to share examples of work on mutually relevant topics such as climate change, successful enterprise and Children's Rights. This helps the young people involved to learn about others their age living in different areas of the world; to recognise their similarities and appreciate their differences.
The Plan-ed project uses a variety of communication methods to help linking schools stay in touch, including sending post, video conferencing, interaction through their website, and more recently text messaging. Over the past six months schools in Malawi, Sierra Leone and the UK have been using FrontlineSMS to communicate with their partner schools. The schools use FrontlineSMS to send texts confirming receipt of posted letters and material. They also exchange text messages about ideas for new projects, and to organise travel for teacher exchanges as part of the linking project, and even to wish each other happy holidays.
The videos here show Headteachers from two schools who have been linked together as part of this Plan-ed project.
Orphent Kawonga (Zombwe School in Malawi) and David Lodge (Countess Anne School in the UK) have been on teacher exchanges to each others schools, to help strengthen their link. Here they discuss the benefits of the use of FrontlineSMS to support their link projects.
Ophent from Zombwe school on School Linking and FrontlineSMS from Plan UK on Vimeo.
David Lodge, Headteacher Countess Anne School from Plan-ed on Vimeo.
The benefit of using FrontlineSMS for the schools involved is that they have a way to regularly stay in touch with each other, and keep a record of their communications. FrontlineSMS has proved particularly helpful in the schools in Malawi in which the internet is not easily accessible, and the post can take a while to get through. Sending and receiving text messages is a quick and convenient way to stay in touch that helps the teachers maintain momentum in the linking school project, thus building sustainable connections between the schools.
Moving forward teachers in Malawi, Sierra Leone and the UK will continue using FrontlineSMS to support their connections with their Link schools. In addition, Plan-ed hopes to explore further ways to utilise FrontlineSMS. For example we are investigating the idea of using FrontlineSMS for more operational purposes; to help Plan-ed's country coordinators stay in touch with the schools more regularly. It really is a great help to have a piece of technology such as FrontlineSMS, which helps facilitate quick communication in otherwise hard to reach areas of the world."
For more information on Plan-ed visit: http://www.planschoolslink.org/
Tagged: education, FrontlineSMS, global learning, Malawi, Plan, Plan-ed, schools, Sierra Leone, UK
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Texting for life in Pakistan: the International Organisation of Migration
The International Organisation for Migration, an intergovernmental organisation working to support people to return to their homes after being displaced by disaster of conflict, have been using FrontlineSMS in Pakistan for some months. Below, the twenty-eighth FrontlineSMS guest post is an operational update from Maria Ahmed and Isabel Leigh, in the Mass Communication Team.
October 15th is Global Handwashing Day, and in Pakistan, the IOM have been sending messages about hygiene and sanitation as part of their response to the devastating floods that hit Pakistan in recent months, affecting approximately 20 million people according to the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (OCHA).
IOM are leading the communication response on behalf of the UN 'Cluster System' of humanitarian responders, and have developed over 50 Public Service Announcements (PSAs) in Pashto, Sindhi and Punjabi on topics including prevention of diarrohea and malaria, water purification methods, mother and child health during the fasting month of Ramadan, child protection issues, treating snake bites, setting up durable shelters and fire safety in camps.
IOM first started using FrontlineSMS in the North in 2009, to mirror humanitarian messages sent out using radio broadcasts with informational texts. People in Northern Pakistan, nearly 3 million of whom were displaced by conflict in 2009, use cell phones extensively amongst family members, often texting in Urdu ( the national language) using the English script. Using FrontlineSMS has saved IOM over $15,000 compared to the costs they would have paid to develop an organised, mass texting system using a commercial supplier. Supported by Zong, the Pakistani subsidiary of China Mobile, IOM is sending free, bulk, informational messages to affectees and humanitarian workers across Pakistan to enhance informational outreach.
In the South, people are used to using mobiles for voice calls, but send far fewer text messages. So IOM are partnering with Zong, who have donated a million free phone calls through 100 cell phones to IOM to enable a free phone service for flood victims to get vital information, seek help and access relief services offered by the Government and aid agencies. IOM hope to continue to expand the service to reach more handsets in Sindh, Punjab and KP, and from January onwards, in Balochistan, Gilgit Baltistan and Pakistan Administered Kashmir.
Tagged: emergency relief, FrontlineSMS, Health, SMS
Agriculture, Education, FrontlineSMS Guest Posts
SMS tackles farmer literacy in Niger
In this, the sixteenth in our series of FrontlineSMS guest posts, Joshua Haynes - a Masters student at The Fletcher School at Tufts University - describes their application of the software to help improve the lives of farmers in Niger, West Africa Projet Alphabétisation de Base par Cellulaire (ABC), conceived of and spearheaded by FrontlineSMS's newest Advisory Board member Jenny Aker, uses mobile phones as tools to aid in adult literacy acquisition in rural Niger. This project is funded by UC Davis, Oxford University, Tufts University and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and housed at and managed by CRS/Niger.
Adult literacy in rural areas faces an inherent problem. In Niger, for example, there are no novels, newspapers or journals in native languages like Hausa or Zarma. The 20% of Nigériens who are literate are literate in French. The vast majority of rural villagers have struggled to maintain their livelihoods since time immemorial without ever knowing how to read a single word. What's the point of literacy if there is no need for written materials?
Mamadou Issoufou, like 80% of people who live in rural areas, has access to a couple of different weekly markets where he can buy and sell his millet. One market, Dogon Kirya, is 11 kilometers away and the other, Doubélma, is 15 kilometers away. As Dogon Kirya is closer, he usually travels there, but he knows that sometimes he can get a better price when he goes to Doubélma. If a fellow villager who traveled to Doubélma the previous week indicates that prices were better there than in Dogon Kirya, then Mamadou might decide to go the extra four kilometers, but he's not sure he'll get the same prices this week, too. He leaves it up to chance.
On Wednesdays, the Service d'Information sur les Marchés Agricoles (SIMA) sends radio broadcasts on the prices of the most important staples like millet and sorghum for the largest markets in the country. Unfortunately, Mamadou, like most rural farmers, doesn't have access to the broadcast, and if he did, his two main markets aren't large enough to be covered by SIMA. Even if they were large enough, Dogon Kirya's market is held on Tuesdays, so any information from the radio would be six days old.
If Mamadou had access to some sort of real-time, demand-driven information, he could make better choices on where to buy and sell his goods. The mobile phone is a perfect device for transmitting information, but even though Mamadou may have access to a phone, he can't read. The point of literacy in rural areas is increase access to information, and this is where FrontlineSMS plays an important role.
This past summer, between my first and second year as a graduate student at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, I was fortunate to work with Jenny, the amazing staff at CRS and SIMA, including Djibou Alzouma, Aïchatou Bety, Sadou Djibrilla, Scott Isbrandt and Ousseïni Sountalma, to develop a system called IMAC – Information sur les Marchés Agricoles par Cellulaire. IMAC – pronounce 'ee-mak' – allows users to query for farmgate and market prices of agriculture products in a number of markets in four languages. It is built to work as one of the Projet ABC components, but can be used in areas with higher literacy levels.
In addition to the querying functionality, we added the ability for SIMA-trained CRS agents to update the crop prices by sending IMAC a specially formatted SMS. The prices are quickly checked for errors in Niamey, the capital, and then are live for all to use. Before, it could take up to three weeks for market prices to get recorded, go through a number of different administrative stages and finally end up in the database in the capital, but now it takes a matter of seconds before the data can be accessed.
Although the data is stored and updated in the database, FrontlineSMS is the primary access point which captures the message, sends it to the database for processing, waits eagerly for the response, and speedily sends the response to the waiting villager. By exploiting FrontlineSMS' HTMLRequest functionality, we were able to access a backend system and turn FrontlineSMS into a demand-driven automatic information dissemination tool.
I was fortunate to return to Niger in October (2009) to not only see how well the system was still working - a big relief for developers - but to be surprised by the number of new markets and products that had been added to the system. Thanks to FrontlineSMS, CRS and SIMA, these additional markets will allow even more villagers, once at least semi-literate, to obtain information that will better help them make more informed decisions about their economic resources.
Joshua Haynes Candidate, Masters of International Business, 2010 The Fletcher School Tufts University http://fletcher.tufts.edu
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Nissan PH to finally launch and sell GT-R in 2016
To sell it cheaper than gray-market units
by Vernon B. Sarne | Feb 23, 2015
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This may be eight years too late, but as they say, better late than never. TopGear.com.ph has just received insider information that Nissan Philippines is finally setting up the stage for the official arrival of the extremely popular GT-R sports car, with the launch date tentatively set for January 2016.
Sports-car enthusiasts have long been baffled by Nissan's inability to bring in the iconic GT-R to Philippine shores. The fact that the car has sold pretty well on the gray market proves that it has a sizable customer base here. First introduced globally in 2007, the R35 GT-R is certainly long in the tooth, but its presence in the product lineup will also definitely shine a halo on Nissan's mainstream cars.
Nissan is expected to reveal the next-generation R36 GT-R late this year--most likely at the Tokyo Motor Show in October--but this model should commence production and delivery in mid to late 2016 as a 2017 model. Which means the GT-R that Nissan Philippines is initially importing is most probably still the current R35 model.
According to our source, Nissan Philippines is now in the process of screening applicants for the prestigious right to be the single GT-R seller in the country. Yes, there will only be one dealership to be allowed to exclusively sell and service the GT-R when it gets released in our market.
"Right now, there are three applicants: Nissan Tetra headed by Tey Sornet, Nissan Mantrade led by Herbert Tan, and Nissan Gallery owned by Willy Tee Ten," our source shared. "All three are existing dealers. Only one will be appointed as the exclusive GT-R seller and servicer."
Our source said that in choosing the solitary GT-R Center, Nissan Philippines will give a lot of weight to the dealerships' financial standing as well as past performance.
"It's not a joke to officially sell and service the GT-R," our source explained. "Just for one service bay alone, you will need a capital of some P15 million."
Nissan is reportedly targeting GT-R sales of 18 to 25 units a year, although our source believes as many as 36 units can be sold in our market.
"The official GT-R Center will probably display units at regular Nissan showrooms," our source added. "These showrooms will then get a commission for every buyer that they manage to refer to the official GT-R seller. But only the GT-R Center is authorized to service the cars."
Here is the best part. When we asked our source if Nissan Philippines could compete with the gray market in terms of pricing, he said that Nissan Philippines will have the upper hand thanks to the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (or JPEPA), which exempts from import duties those Japan-sourced vehicles that have an engine displacement of at least three liters.
"Nissan Philippines expects to be able to price the GT-R at P5.5 million to P5.8 million," our source confidently concluded.
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Riddick (Movie) Review
Score: 6 / 10
Remember when Riddick was supposed to be the future of dark science fiction cinema? Back when Pitch Black came out it seemed like the charming psychopath who sees in the dark was a future genre icon in the making, and its star Vin Diesel was one of the most exciting actors of his generation. In time, both of those predictions have proven to be wildly incorrect. You can blame it all on The Chronicles Of Riddick, a beautiful but boneheaded attempt to give the character a sci-fi epic franchise that was so bad, the tie-in video game actually ended up being superior. Yet despite that unfortunate failure, somehow the character has returned. Simply titled Riddick, this is one of those threequels that attempt to apologize to fans by pretending the first sequel didn't exist and going back to basics. Surprisingly, it kind of works. Somehow director David Twohy and Vin Diesel have found life left in their bald, cue ball antihero and delivered something that might not be as good as Pitch Black, but at least suggests that producing further Riddick sequels wouldn't be a terrible mistake. Who could have seen that coming?
After tossing off/abandoning all of the needlessly convoluted backstory from Chronicles in a few flashbacks, Twohy kicks off his film by abandoning Riddick on a desert planet. For almost 30 minutes, the film follows Vin Diesel alone and struggling to survive, which is much more entertaining than it sounds. Riddick learns to fight the giant scorpion monsters that inhabit the hostile land, feasts off their gooey innards, and makes friends with a big CGI dog (because, why not?). Eventually, he decides to leave the planet by alerting nearby bounty hunters (and huntresses) to his presence through a distress beacon. Two competing teams of bounty hunters show up to hunt Riddick down, only he ends up bumping them off one by one instead (because he's Riddick). Then after teasing audiences with what they loved about Pitch Black, the film turns into a straight up remake where Riddick and his foes must form a reluctant partnership to fight off a legion of alien monster thingies.
So, Riddick is essentially three sequels for the price of one, which is both a good and a bad thing. Any one of these ideas might seem tiresome stretched out to feature length, but play like gangbusters condensed down to 30-40 minutes. The only trouble there is that the film feels a bit too long for a schlocky B-movie and probably could have benefited from ditching one of the three sub-narratives. On the plus side the movie never really drags, it
just feels lengthy when the collective running times add up. David Twohy has quietly become one of the most underrated B-movie directors in Hollywood (if you've never seen his 2009 thriller A Perfect Getaway, you really should do so immediately). He's a gifted technician and smart enough to know when to follow or bend conventions to deliver a satisfying genre flick. Riddick is not his finest hour, but it is a smooth running entertainment machine that rights all the wrongs of Chronicles and delivers the most creative use of a machete in recent memory. That's about all you need to get by in this genre, and the acting is decent all around as well. Vin Diesel proves why he became a star by fully committing to his solo section and delivering enough charisma to carry it. He's an actor with limited chops, but the role demands exactly what he can deliver. The same is true of the rest of the low-key cast. No one will win awards, but everyone is cast to type well enough to deliver their character as required, particularly Battlestar Galactica's Katee Sackhoff as a hard as nails lesbian assassin (there aren't enough of those in movies these days).
Riddick is straight up nuts n' bolts genre filmmaking. From Twohy on down, everyone involved knew what movie they were making and delivered it without frills. Sure, some of the CGI reveals the franchise's dwindling budget and things drag on about 20 minutes too long, but in the end if you have any desire to see a movie called Riddick, you'll get what you crave. It's enough to suggest that there might still be some life left in the character. Vin, Twohy, and co. will never make a masterpiece out of this material and already learned to keep their ambitions in check after failing on the first sequel. However, a series of movies in which Riddick bounces around the galaxy and beats up bad guys worse than him has a certain sci-fi spaghetti western appeal that could be worth tapping into. Regardless, for the first time since the year 2000 it's actually worth musing about potential Riddick sequels. That's really all this movie could hope to accomplish and it's kind of amazing to think that a franchise deemed dead almost ten years ago somehow came back. Well played gents, but don't get greedy again if it's a hit.
"This is one of those threequels that attempt to apologize to fans by pretending the first sequel didn't exist and going back to basics and surprisingly, it kind of works."
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Cast: David Twohy
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RPG IV's built-in XML support has been available for some time now, having been originally introduced with V5R4 back in 2006. However, it wasn't until the advent of V6 with its removal of many of RPG's size limits that it became the powerful tool it is today.
Where the character variable fileLocn would contain the value /XMLDocs/Customers.xml.
As you can see, by using RPG IV's ability to directly code nested DSs it is easy to match the "shape" of the DS to the XML document. I have also added the "id" field to the structure.
For those of you unfamiliar with nested data structures such as these, I will just point out that in order to reference the ID field for a particular customer element you would refer to customer(index).id. To reference the state field in the address you would code customer(index).address.state.
In the next edition of Four Hundred Guru Classic, I will be taking a look at how to deal with repeating elements that occur within the body of the XML document and the basics of how to deal with optional elements.


Unlike the other Disney Magic Kingdom parks, Shanghai Disney doesn't quite have the familiar, symmetrical, central hub that clearly frames views and alignments with the park's iconic castle. In Shanghai, there is a hub, but it is comprised of an entire themed land--the Gardens of Imagination. And this lush park land, influenced by traditional Chinese design, is organic and asymmetrical, providing different angles of the Enchanted Storybook Castle. The "front and centered" view doesn't really exist in Shanghai Disneyland, but that doesn't mean that there aren't good compositions to be had. A flower bed, some light fixtures, and the biggest castle Disney has ever designed certainly make for a great frame!
The Enchanted Storybook Castle towers in the distance on a Shanghai Disneyland night.


For six years now, life has been really good for James. He's got a great job as the creative director of an advertising firm in New York City. He enjoys spending time with his wife and kids.
And it's all been possible, he says, because for the past six years he's been taking a drug called ketamine.
Ketamine "helped me get my life back," says James, who asked that we not use his last name to protect his career.
Ketamine was developed as a human and animal anesthetic in the 1960s. And almost from the time it reached the market it's also been used as a mind-bending party drug.
But ketamine's story took a surprising turn in 2006, when researchers at the National Institutes of Health showed that an intravenous dose could relieve severe depression in a matter of hours. Since then, doctors have prescribed ketamine "off label" to thousands of depressed patients who don't respond to other drugs.
And pharmaceutical companies are testing several new ketamine-related drugs to treat depression. Johnson & Johnson expects to seek approval for its nasal spray esketamine later this year.
Ketamine may also offer new hope for people like James who have symptoms of several different psychiatric disorders.
James had a happy childhood, he says. But his thoughts were out of control. "I always felt like I was crossing a freeway and my thoughts were just racing past me," he says.
And there was something else about James: his body temperature.
In his late 20s, James saw a doctor who told him he had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. So he started taking stimulants.
At first, the pills helped him focus. Then they didn't, no matter how many he took.
He'd done well as an idea guy in the advertising industry. But now James was trying to work at home, and it wasn't going well.
James had always suffered from mood swings. But now they were rapid and extreme. And he couldn't stop thinking about gruesome scenarios, like a murderer coming for his family.
Eventually, James found his way to Dr. Demitri Papolos, an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Papolos diagnosed James with a variant of bipolar disorder he calls the "fear of harm phenotype." It typically appears in childhood, and often doesn't respond to traditional psychiatric drugs.
In January, Papolos published a study of 45 children with the problem. They inhaled a nasal mist containing ketamine about twice a week. And nearly all got dramatically better.
Scientists still aren't sure why ketamine works. But there's evidence that it encourages the brain to rewire, to alter the connections between cells. That process has been linked to recovery from depression. And it may also explain why ketamine helps people who have symptoms associated with several different psychiatric disorders.
James started taking a ketamine nasal spray every other day. And he says his response was dramatic.
The next day, James did sit down at his computer. A month later, he was back at work.


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At the age of 26, he became a professor of the Moscow Conservatory. His life was a curious mixture of success and failure. That's why he is inseparable from his music. Edvard Grieg wrote about him: "He is melancholic almost to the point of madness". Not all of Tchaikovsky's works were appreciated by his contemporaries but these days it's clear that his legacy is tremendous and priceless. Find out more about the genius composer in The Legacy of Tchaikovsky documentary.


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Ideal for families, two couples, or a group of friends, these roomy suites offer plenty of space to comfortably spread out. Two separate bedrooms are each furnished with a king-size bed that can be converted into two twin beds, topped with pillow selections of your choosing. A white-on-white color scheme evokes Mykonos' elegant beauty, while floor-to-ceiling window walls bring the seaside splendor indoors.


Data gathering. Year-end planning – with or without the prospect of tax reform– should start with data collection and a review of prior year returns. This includes losses or other carryovers, estimated tax installments, and items that were unusual. Conversations about next year should include discussions of any plans for significant purchases or dispositions, as well as any possible life cycle events.
Bunching strategies. Certain items are deductible only to the extent they exceed an adjusted gross income (AGI) floor; for example, aggregate miscellaneous itemized deductions are deductible only to the extent they exceed two percent of the taxpayer's AGI. Thus, year-end and new-year tax planning might consider ways to bunch AGI-sensitive expenditures in a single year, so that particular deductions exceed their applicable floors and the taxpayer's total itemized deductions exceed the standard deduction.
Life-cycle changes. External influences such as changes in the tax law, however, may be only part of the reason for taking some action before year's end. Changes in your personal and financial circumstances – marriage, divorce, a newborn, a change in employment, a new business venture, investment successes and downturns – may require a change-in-course tax-wise since last year. As with any 'life-cycle" change, your tax return for this year may look entirely different from what it looked like for 2016. Accounting for that difference now, before year-end 2017 closes, should be an integral part of your year-end planning.
Timing rules. Effective year-end tax planning by its nature requires the correct execution of specific timing rules under the tax code. Due especially to the current uncertainties surrounding tax reform, taxpayers must be particularly nimble and prepared to implement timing strategies well into December.


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AE Live delivers graphics solutions remotely for The Hundred
AE Live (AE), a leading provider of broadcast services, is delivering its graphics solutions for cricket's latest format, The Hundred, run by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), from its newly built graphics suites based at the AE Live Campus.
The purpose-built pods, which are on-net with major connectivity partners, enable AE to deliver its services to any well-connected venue or production hub. For The Hundred, AE will be remotely connected to the Sky Sports' studios in Osterley where Sky Sports' main production crew will be located. The set-up of the pods replicates the feel of a production room but with the added benefit of removing the visual or acoustic distractions of a traditional open-plan working environment. The pods are fully equipped with monitoring, including live camera feeds from venues and connected talkback with the entire production crew.
From the pods, AE operators will be delivering both match and presentation graphics for Sky Sports' coverage of the inaugural event. There will also be an AE presence at the eight-match venues with an AE Scorer collecting match data and an AE Operator, in conjunction with Sky operators, delivering a range of data-driven augmented reality content throughout the competition to complement Sky's Avatars.
Dave Gill, Chief Technology Officer at AE, said, "This is a pivotal moment as our new operator pods are being used on this exciting new format of the game. Our pods have already covered some individual live productions as we have adapted to the changing COVID situation, but this will be the first major tournament to be exclusively delivered from the pods. We know the future is remote but there is no one-size-fits-all model, so we have designed these pods, as well as the supporting infrastructure, to be as flexible as possible and able to support a range of different remote workflow models. It's been very rewarding to work so closely and collaboratively with the Sky technical teams to achieve the new architecture and workflows required to deliver such an exciting summer of cricket. Connectivity is key to any remote workflow so being on-net to high availability media networks is an essential component of our remote solutions."
Nick Baily, Chief Executive Officer at AE, also commented, "The R&D and engineering teams at AE Live used the sporting hiatus last year as an opportunity to further develop our flexible remote workflows for our clients. As well as the creation of our Graphics Operation Centre in Hemel Hempstead, the teams worked hard to ensure the entire suite of AE Live applications could work in the virtual environment in terms of stats capture, data management and graphics playout. The Hundred is a great example of how the business has continued to innovate as the industry changes. Sky Sports Cricket has been a client of AE Live for 28 years and this is the latest in a series of collaborative innovations during that long relationship."
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Nov. 21, 2017, 9 a.m.
By Laura Hazard Owen @laurahazardowen Nov. 21, 2017, 9 a.m.
The abrupt shutdown of the Gothamist and DNAinfo local news networks earlier this month was a stark reminder to digital journalists who want archives of their stuff: Back it up! Back it up!
It isn't just that news apps and digital interactives won't last forever; as my colleague Shan Wang wrote in September in a look at broader archiving efforts, "so many pioneering works of digital journalism no longer exist online, or exist only as a shadow of their former selves." The problem is also that digital journalists who will someday be looking for new jobs will probably need to share samples of their previous work with prospective employers, and that's tough to do if the site you were working for is gone. Even if you're not job-hunting, you may want evidence, years down the line, that you, you know — produced something.
Luckily for journalists who haven't had the foresight to be saving all along (i.e., most of us — we can't all be Josh Benton), a few solutions have emerged.
Save My News, launched this month by Ben Welsh, editor of the Data Desk team at the Los Angeles Times, lets journalists (about 300 of them so far) save their links to Internet Archive and WebCite. You can download all of the clips and archive links as an Excel spreadsheet.
Parker Higgins, director of special projects at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, put out a call on Twitter to work with Gothamist and DNAinfo journalists to preserve their work when it looked as if the sites might be gone entirely and archives would have to be re-compiled through services like Internet Archive. He began writing the code to do that, but then the sites went back online and he was able to make a more robust, quicker tool that could get people PDF archives of all of the work they'd published on those sites in a couple of hours.
That tool, "Gotham Grabber," is now available as open source code on Github. "With a few alterations, many journalists can use this tool to create an archived version of their entire portfolio," Higgins wrote in a Freedom of the Press blog post. That requires some coding knowledge — and "most of the journalists I've talked to who were working at these places aren't coders," Higgins told me. "But I hope to see people adapting this code to other sites." He's now scraped more than 50,000 articles, each as a PDF.
When he started talking to other journalists about a tool that might help with this, "they told me they didn't only have issues with updating their readers. They also had trouble keeping track of their articles themselves. It made a lot of sense to combine these new things." After initial setup, Authory automatically backs up all of a journalist's articles (no matter what site they're published on) and also lets readers "subscribe" to journalists, so that they can receive email notifications when one publishes something new. (Muck Rack for Journalists performs a similar function on the notification side, but doesn't back up journalists' work. Byliner used to offer a similar journalist-following function.) "The idea of creating the backups for the journalists was basically something we added on top, but now it's the center of what we do," Hauch said.
A two-week trial is free, and after that the service is $7 a month or $70 a year. Authory is in very early stages; right now, it has under 1,000 active users, mostly in the U.S. and U.K. It can scrape content from sites with soft and metered paywalls, as well some sites with hard paywalls like The Wall Street Journal when journalists log in. In the future, it will support more hard paywalls.
Users can access the full text of their articles on their Authory page, or email hello@authory.com to request the export of some or all of their articles as an XML or HTML file. Eventually, they'll be able to download their archives with a single click, and will also be able to download individual PDFs.
This means "you don't need to rely on us to be around forever," Hauch said. "Some people are a little bit scared that we might go bust, which we don't intend to do at all." But — well — this is the Internet, and so, you never know.
Illustration of scissors by Susan Fitzgerald used under a Creative Commons license.
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Owen, Laura Hazard. "Here are three tools that help digital journalists save their work in case a site shuts down." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 21 Nov. 2017. Web. 19 Apr. 2019.
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US to keep Kyrgyz air base until Afghanistan pullout – Clinton
Washington will not consider shutting down its Manas airbase in Kyrgyzstan until troops are pulled out of Afghanistan in 2014, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, and Kyrgyzstan's President Roza Otunbayeva seen at a news conference in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
The US's top diplomat made the announcement during her five-hour visit to the Central Asian republic.Speaking to Kyrgyz students and civic society representatives in a televised interview, Clinton observed that the US and its NATO partners agreed in November – at the alliance's summit in Lisbon – to begin turning control of Afghanistan over to local authorities next year. The goal, she said, is to have the Afghans in charge of their own security in four years' time. "And then we will look to see if there is any continuing mission that would be of benefit to Kyrgyzstan that would be continued there," she added, answering a question on the fate of the base near the capital Bishkek. Later, talking to troops at Manas, Clinton noted "You are not going to be here indefinitely," quotes the State Department official website. However, according to Kyrgyz President Otunbayeva, the issue of the base's future was not discussed during her Thursday's meeting with Hillary Clinton, since that would be "the prerogative of the future government". She highlighted, though, the importance of the Manas base for Kyrgyzstan and voiced concern over the possibility of the increase of the threat of terrorism that might follow the troop withdrawal next year.The air base is a key transit center for US and allied troops deployed to Afghanistan. It also houses a fleet of American air tankers which refuel warplanes. The Manas base has been in use since the beginning of the Afghan War in 2001. The hub has raised tensions between US and Kyrgyz governments over jet fuel supply contracts. The Pentagon had awarded a deal worth over $300 million to supply the air base to a corporation that is currently under investigation by US Congress. While the business will not disclose its ownership, there is speculation that the family of ousted Kyrgyz President Bakiyev might be involved. The companies – Red Star Enterprises and Mina Corp, both based in Gibraltar – deny any links to the Bakiyev family.Speaking at a joint media conference with Otunbayeva, Clinton assured that the US is committed to transparency. "The fuel contract was a result of an open bidding process, but we recognize that the government of Kyrgyzstan is conducting its own investigation into the fuel company," Clinton noted. Seeking to ease tensions over the strategically important base, the Secretary of State promised that the US will help Bishkek set up an entity which would bid for a portion of the lucrative fuel supply contracts. "We are working on a partnership to help establish a Kyrgyz entity that can take over part of the base contract," she said. Later, in a TV interview, Clinton added that a newly created body will be able to "provide a significant part of the fuel", and "the funding will go into the Government of Kyrgyzstan".The American diplomat also praised Kyrgyz attempts to build a democratic state. After the October election, Kyrgyz leaders agreed to form a coalition government which will try to finally bring stability to the Central Asian state. The situation in the country has been fragile since the mass revolt in April this year in which Bakiyev was overthrown and hundreds were killed in riots."There are many who say parliamentary democracy, true parliamentary democracy, cannot work in Central Asia, or in many other places in the world. We reject that, and we think Kyrgyzstan is proving that it can," Clinton stated. Following the Kyrgyz leg of her Central Asian tour, the US Secretary of State flew to neighboring Uzbekistan.
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